Domain counterfeiters crack down

[Eric Lyon]

Look out counterfeiters, here they come lol

A proposed law to combat digital piracy stalled last year in the face of widespread public opposition, but district courts are embracing its controversial remedies against Internet companies that do business with alleged infringers in trademark cases.

So far this year, at least 18 orders affecting both alleged infringers and intermediaries — domain-name registries, payment processors, search engines and Internet service providers — have sprung up in the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of New York.

Most are temporary restraining orders, but several are combined with preliminary injunctions. They range in severity and in how many third parties are targeted. Some orders involve transferring the counterfeiters' domain names so that the plaintiff can direct traffic to a Web site about the lawsuit. Others require domain-name registries to disable domain names used to sell counterfeit goods. Still others call for freezing the counterfeiters' financial accounts associated with payment Web sites, such as PayPal Inc.

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[iowadawg]

And yet, people show up in forums and try to sell trademark domains, or promote sites that sell counterfeit goods.

Or people show up in forums to whine and gripe about paypal shutting down their accounts (and never tell the truth of why, case in point is a thread on np), host companies shutting down their sites, and so forth.

About teim really that the courts really bear down on the counterfeiting going on in the net.
Getting orders against ISP's, host companies, seo companies, etc. is very effective, even when they are out of the country.

Really, how many times on forums have you see people post " I am in (name a country) and the laws of the USA don't bother me".